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FORGOTTEN SPACES EXHIBIT, SOMMERSET HOUSE, THE STRAND, LONDON

Forgotten Spaces Exhibit, Sommerset House, The Strand, London Photo: Yin&Yan Forgotten Spaces is a shortlist of the Call for Entries for architects, students, designers, and other creatives to submit their design solutions for neglected, redundant, and overall forgotten spaces in and about Greater London.  The project aims to get people thinking about urban design and city planning in new ways, of examining the potential for the overlooked nooks and crannies

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SPENCER HOUSE, LONDON

Rear elevation of Spencer House facing St James’ Park at 27 St James’ Place Photo © Heather Shimmin Spencer House was built by the first Earl Spencer, John, in 1756-66, on the edge of Green Park, just across the park from Buckingham Palace.   It was one of the most ambitious aristocratic homes ever to be built and today it is the only surviving private mansion from the 18th century in London.  Between

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OPEN HOUSE LONDON 2011: THE GLOBE THEATRE

  Exterior of the Globe Theatre on the South Bank, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside. Photo © Heather Shimmin Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is the result of one man’s vision to have an accurate recreation of the Globe Theatre built not 300 yards from where the original theatre on the banks of the Thames stood until 1642 when it was shut down by the Puritans. Sam Wanamaker, an American actor and producer,

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MA THESIS IN HISTORICAL AND SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE FROM NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

I’ve just finished my MA program at New York University in Historical and Sustainable Architecture.  The focus of the program is Adaptive Reuse, urban regeneration, and sustainability.  I was fortunate enough to be able to study in London.  My time there was all too brief but it has opened my eyes to the possibilities of adaptive reuse and just how far behind America is in such matters (among others, but

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